Piano applicants playing standard repertoire do not need to send copies of their printed music, but should send a list of their audition pieces.

Bachelor of Music in Performance

Perform four contrasting pieces, including: --a complete sonata by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert --a romantic work of 8 minutes or more --a work by Bach including a fugue (WTC prelude and fugue or three movements of a suite) --a work from the 20th or 21st century

Sight read a short piece

Memorization is required.

Bachelor of Science in Music Education, Bachelor of Arts in Music

Perform three contrasting pieces, including *a sonata allegro movement by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven *a work by Bach *a romantic work or piece from the 20th or 21st century

Sight read a short piece.

Memorization is required.

Music Minor

Perform two contrasting pieces, including

*a sonata allegro movement by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven *a romantic work, work by Bach, or work from the 20th or 21st century

Sight read a short piece.

Memorization is required.

To schedule an audition or an interview with faculty members please contact Diane MacBeth (or 717-337-6131). For all other inquiries regarding the music program and audition requirements, please contact Dr. Amanda Heim, Coordinator for Recruitment, at aheim@gettysburg.edu or 717-337-6146.

Organ

Bachelor of Music in Performance

A prelude and fugue by J.S. Bach or other composer of the late Baroque period.

An organ composition by a 19th-century composer.

An organ composition by a 20th-century composer.(One of the above should be a slow/lyrical composition).

Sight read a hymn.

Memorization is desirable, but not required.

Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Music Education and Music Minor

A prelude and fugue by J.S. Bach or other composer of the late Baroque period.

Any composition of a contrasting style period.

Sight read a hymn.

Memorization is not required.

To schedule an audition or an interview with faculty members please contact Diane MacBeth (macbeth@gettysburg.edu or 717-337-6131). For all other inquiries regarding the music program and audition requirements, please contact Dr. Amanda Heim, Coordinator for Recruitment, at aheim@gettysburg.edu or 717-337-6146.